Search Results: Titles starting with L from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1913. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #223 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Boards faintly bowed, foxing to vellum, darkening and a patch of rubbing to spine. Tissue guard for plate 25 incorrectly captioned as plate 10; plate 26 is absent, perhaps a binding error. Lacks ribbon tie.

[Various Places]: [No Publisher], 1960. Typescript drafts, notes and portions of various manuscripts (one with Leary's hand-corrections), and eleven photographs of various sizes. Most of the photographs appear to be taken at the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook New York, where Leary lived for a time (1963-68) with a group of people and researched and experimented with various drugs, most notably LSD and psilocybin. The images feature Leary and other unidentified people. Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass), Arthur Kleps, and Maynard Ferguson lived at the estate, while the numerous visitors and guests included R. D. Laing, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Mingus, and Helen Merrill. Estate owner William Mellon Hitchcock, heir to the Mellon fortune, subsidized Leary's research and later financed the nation's largest LSD dealers, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Includes: 1. Eleven photographs, mostly b&w, a few in color. Various sizes, the larger ones being approx. 8" x 10". The photos are… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Albert Hofman and translator Jonathan Ott. Bound in publisher's original black cloth lettered in orange. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, scratched indent to front panel affecting cloth below. The memoirs of the discoverer of LSD, uncommon signed.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First edition. First edition. Signed by Lynne Reid Banks on dedication page with "Janice" crossed out and corrected to "Jamie," as she typically did with this book. 319 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint perfume small, in Near Fine dust jacket, spine panel slightly darkened, worn tips. A coming-of-age novel of a pregnant woman, down-and-out in London, with a prominent gay character. It inspired a 1962 film. The author would go on to pen the popular young adult series The Indian in the Cupboard.

Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. 135pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning, light rubbing at extremities, a closed tear to the top edge of the front panel with light associated creasing, and a torn chip at the tail of the spine. A beautiful copy.

New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. First Edition. Good. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black. Good. Front and rear inner hinges exposed, leaving binding weak. Pages toned and sporadically foxed. Cloth rubbed, speckled at spine. A classic of Creole cooking, and the first book published on the subject.

Milano: G. Gnocchi. Printed by Fratelli Salmin of Padoua, 1878. First edition thus. Near Fine. First edition of what has become known as "Dantino," one of the smallest books printed in movable type and one of the most renowned miniature books. Near Fine. Finely bound in vellum elaborately stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, looped string straps with one clasp post lacking.The printing process was arduous, in part because of the minuscule 2-point Didot type (so-called "flies' eye" type), "thought to be the smallest ever employed," and "said to have injured the eyesight of both the compositor and the corrector." Because only 30 pages could be printed in a month, the work took many years to complete. The project was begun in 1850 by Giacomo Gnocchi, but the work was abandoned. Resumed in 1873 by his son Giovanni, the edition was completed at the Printing Works 'Alla Minerva' in Padua overseen by Gaetano Gianuzzi and completed on 9 June 1878. After "1,000 copies were printed and the type was… Read More

Paris: Le Cercle du Nouveau Livre, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, published in the original French language; Copy number 627 of an unspecified limited edition. Near Fine, with slight wear at head of spine. Lacking the dust jacket, perhaps as issued. A stunning copy of the original French language first edition, which would later be translated into English as The Planet of the Apes.

Paris: Emile Lévy, 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #49 of 200 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, tape stains to cloth and tape on inside of boards; despite this Very Good overall, a few ties have perished, typical age-toning to contents but generally bright.All 100 plates and their textual pages present. Numbers written on plates in light pencil. A deluxe monograph about Muslim ceramics with large color plates. Please note: these volumes are exceptionally heavy and large, and will require substantial additional cost if shipping outside of the USA..

Paris: Albert Lévy, 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, stamps on the verso of each color plate; despite this Very Good overall, a few ties have perished, typical age-toning to contents but generally bright and clean. A deluxe monograph about Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics with large color plates. Please note: these volumes are exceptionally heavy and large, and will require substantial additional cost if shipping outside of the USA..

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1951. First Spanish language edition. First Spanish language edition, complete in three volumes. All three volumes signed by Arturo Barea on their front free endpapers, dated 1952. The first volume has a brief inscription in Spanish to the former owner. Bound in publishers' wraps with dust jackets. Near Fine in Very Good dust jackets with some edge wear, a few small dampstains and a pen mark to spine panels. Quite rare signed. Spanish author Arturo Barea's acclaimed memoir of the Spanish Civil War. It was published first in English translated by his wife Ilsa from 1941 to 1946. Publication in the original Spanish was delayed (in Spain by the continued rule of Franco) until the Argentinian publisher Editorial Losada issued this edition in 1951. Barea's prose has been compared to fiction writers like Ramon Sender and Pio Baroja. This is his best-known work.

Paris: Buchet/Castel, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 221 pp. Publisher's white wraps. Near Fine with some light rubbing to wraps, faint stain to fore edge. Internally free of marks and only a little toned with age. About half of the scarce belly band laid in, the rest gone. An attractive copy of one of the major works of 20th century radical thought in the original French. It galvanized Paris students in May 1968, and continually inspired punk and the radical Left (anarchist, Marxist, postmodernist, etc.) in the '70s and beyond.

Paris: Buchet/Castel, 1967. First Edition. Very Good. 221 pp. Publisher's white wraps. First edition. Very Good with some light creasing, toning and light soiling to wraps, ding to rear cover near bottom, small stain to inside front cover and pages toned. One of the major works of 20th century radical thought in the original French. It galvanized Paris students in May 1968, continually inspired punk and the radical Left (anarchist, Marxist, postmodernist, etc.) in the '70s and beyond.

St. Louis: Phil Wagner, 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue. Very Good with lean to binding, light soiling to cloth with light rubbing at corners and spine ends, browning to pages. A scarce title by the American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1946. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with a faint stain to front and rear cover at bottom corners, lightly affecting pastedowns as well. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, light edge wear and chipping, and short splits started at the flap folds. A presentable copy.

Paris: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, copy number 850 of 1050 copies, privately printed for the author. Very Good with light toning, foxing and light general wear. Faint crease to the front cover, short split to the top of the front spine joint and a small former owner bookplate to inside the front cover. A very lovely copy of this fragile production. Barnes' novel based on a Parisian lesbian social circle centering around Natalie Clifford Barney's salon--and debatably either a loving satire or a bitter attack on such. Written in archaic Rabelaisian style, illustrated by the author with styled Elizabethan woodcuts.

Seattle: The Mill Mountain Press, 1974. First Edition. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson wraps. Staining to wraps, else Fine. One of Stanford's rarest works published in his lifetime.

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 245pp. Pinkish red cloth with navy lettering. Good+. No jacket. Spine sunned, a few stain spots to cloth. Bookplate on paste down. Hinges at front and rear a bit free. A nice copy. A novel about prostitution and poverty in the American midwest, written by the author of hobo-novel-par-excellence Beggars of Life. After a single printing the book was declared "obscene." Unlike other banned books from this period such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit it was effectively suppressed. Copies were destroyed by police and the book was forgotten.

New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. First Edition. Fair+. Signed first edition. [vii], 245 pp. Pinkish red cloth with navy lettering. Fair or a little better, lacking jacket, with staining to cloth, spine sunned, front corner chewed, front and rear hinges repaired with glue, some marginal pinpricks and creased corners. With a lengthy inscription by Jim Tully late in life, meditating on this thoroughly censored and banned book about brothels, "6/26/42 For Louis and Bess Cochran -- and their new home, who will have understanding for the gals in this book -- suppressed in a free land [?] by those who might dreamt [?] -- to the impure -- al things are impure. One critic said that no man of talent ever wrote so Bad a Book -- and yet it was suppressed in the words of whitman I say of such gals -- not [three illegible words] excludes you will I exclude [?] you [signed] Jim Tully June 1942." On the facing page he wrote, "Suppressed by Comstock, New York City, only 900 copies printed." He also added Carl… Read More

Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by D. H. Lawrence, privately printed and available by subscription only. Bound in original brown paper-covered boards with upper board stamped with black phoenix design and paper title label to spine. Near Fine with rubbing to corners and light wear to covers, pages toned and lightly foxed heavier at prelims and terminals. A controversial novel for its time, this was banned in both England and America, and not published in the later until 1959. Housed in a custom morocco-backed chemise slipcase.